<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 3:00 PM, Eugen Leitl <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eugen@leitl.org" target="_blank">eugen@leitl.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 02:57:37PM -0600, Kelly Anderson wrote:<br>
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> McDonald's business model doesn't seem to be about good food to me. It<br>
> seems to be about appealing to children, who drag their parents kicking and<br>
> screaming into the joint.<br>
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</div>The Golden Arches are less about burgers than then are about real estate.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Location location location. We have a storage company here in town that has a model like that. They put storage units in places where they think Walmart or someone will want to build a store in 15 years. They make more money on the real estate increasing in value than in storing people's junk.</div>
<div><br></div><div>-Kelly</div></div></div></div>